Breathing exercises help relieve anxiety

  When you face emotional tension, you may want to make a deep whistle, which helps relieve stress and eliminate anxiety and tension.  When you feel anxious, your pulse rate increases and your inhalation speeds up. Deep inhalation can force you to slow down the rate of inhalation, so that the body believes that the anxiety has passed.  The correct way to train for whistling is as follows: remain seated, lean back, don’t hunch over, put your fingers together and place your palms on your belly button. Imagine your lungs as a balloon, take a long breath in through your nose, fill the balloon with air and hold for 2 seconds. At this point you see your hand being “jacked up”. Then whistle with your mouth to “deflate” the balloon and see if your hand is slowly falling back down. After you learn how to do the abdominal whistle, start learning to time the whistle so that it doesn’t get faster. You have to breathe in for 4 seconds and then breathe out for 4 seconds.  The method of controlling the whistle needs to be consistent.  You must keep practicing it several times a day. As you practice, it is already helping you to reduce your susceptibility to anxiety. Of course, it is important to drill it often enough to reach the point where using this whistling method without thinking about it will come in handy during an anxiety attack. Performing a short whistle before facing a daily routine interruption can dramatically improve the level of anxiety. For example, when the phone rings, take a deep breath before answering. Make it a habit to consciously relax for a few seconds, and it can act as an effective calming agent, allowing you to control your anxiety instead of being in its grip.